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ADMIT IT

We are obsessed with apps that manipulate and post process iPhone images. Now we can actually use our iPads and iPhones to post process any image just by putting it into our devices even if it was taken with a digital camera. There are so many apps for processing and painting images that it can get confusing which ones are worth buying. Along comes Dan Marcolina with an amazing new book that covers over 45 apps in details with over 150 images explained.

What Makes this Different

I really wanted this book fast and it turns out, I could get it fast! I bought the downloadable edition instead of the printed one! In minutes I owned the book on my iPad, my laptop and my iPhone. Now I could carry it anywhere with me! I was able to read it immediately. On my iPad and iPhone I am able to read it in iBooks. My laptop has a pdf version. 

INTERACTIVE

The interactive part of the book is the way books of this type will be in the future. While you are reading the book, you can watch videos of the lessons. It makes use of Microsoft Tags technology. 

I was reading the book on my iPad and then used my iPhone camera to capture the tag that went with the lesson. It immediately took me to the webpage with a video taking me step by step through the lesson. This is something I have dreamed of doing with my own future books and lessons. This totally is engaging the reader into using all technologies for learning. With todays savvy young photographers and image makers, this is the way for them to learn and view more content than ever before. Between the step of publishing the book and getting distribution, technology is changing fast. Using this method of writing permits easy updates by updating the videos and relinking them to the tags.

CHAPTER OUTLINE

The images in Dan's book are very good. Although the book is about the apps he doesn't let us down with mediocre finished products. The finished post processed images are beautiful and no one would know they were processed from apps and not from Photoshop. The sophistication shows in each one. He explains the blending of the images the way that I use the blending to create my own artwork and it's easy to understand.

Overall, this book is well worth it and you won't be sorry you added it to your library.

Dan Marcolinas iPhone Obsessed

Because we can never learn too much or have too many books, there is another brand new book on this same topic I am waiting to receive and I will review that one also.